Flash Effect Help

Question

Hey guys,
First time poster here on the Adobe forums and I apologise if this is the wrong sub section for this kind of stuff. I'm currently doing Flash in one of my courses at university, and for one of the projects we have to create an aphorism banner. I wanted to use an effect similar to this on it Imgur (<- link). I've tried to write the code for myself, however it wouldn't work. I'll paste the code here later on as I'm out away from my computer as of this moment.
So basically the X axis moves in relation to the mouses position, all I've gotten so far is that this is a mouseevent but i'm not too sure where to go from there..
Any help would be fantastic.

Answer 1

import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
// stops the frames from progressing (may remove)
stop();
//defining variables for mouse movement
var xmouse:Number = 0;
var xp:Number = 0;
var speed:Number = 1.5;
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, tracer);
var specaHeight:Number= 90;
var specaWidth:Number= 728;
function tracer (event:MouseEvent):void{
  275
  if (event.stageX > stage.stageWidth/2)
  {xmouse = - (event.stageX - stage.stageWidth)-stage.stageWidth/2;}
  else{
  (xmouse = (stage.stageWidth/2) - event.stageX);
(xp = Math.round(specaWidth) * 100);
kitesurfermc.y = 18;
var kitesurfermcX = ((xp/100) * 45) + 275;
that's all the code I've got so far